Art Vent

Letting the Fresh Air In

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Art Vent Letting the Fresh Air In

October 4, 2013

18th Street, between 10th and 11th


Hauser &Wirth, 511 WEst 18th Street

20th Street

Eleventh Avenue

Bortolami Gallery, 520 West 20th Street

Tenth Avenue sidewalk


29th Street between 9h and 10th

29th Street, between 10th and 11th
August 21, 2011
Another photo from Nina Zurier (see post below), now back home:

Photograph: Nina Zurier, 2011
August 14, 2011
Often, as a guest artist, I meet people from far-flung parts of the country who want to know how they can have an art career if they live in, say, Akron (apologies to Akron, if it has a vibrant scene I don’t know about). They often look startled at the suggestion that they could perhaps move, when, in any other profession, normal procedure would be to go where the opportunities are.  It’s possible for some people, I suppose, to make great art in a vacuum, but most of the time when artists aren’t actively part of the bigger conversation, the work lags.

There is, however, another option: make your own scene.

Artist-run galleries, publications, coops that convert industrial buildings for studio space, or even pop-up exhibitions, are just some of the ways artists can band together and take charge of their own environment. This summer, in out-of-the-way places—


Nina Zurier, Sleepwalking, 2011, inkjet print, 34" x 18".
John Zurier, Iceland (loft), 2011, ink on paper, 11.6" x 8.2".

Jack in his studio.
And then I just couldn't resist taking a photo of what has to be the most beautiful bathroom in the world, which echoes the blue theme: